Sunday, May 10, 2009

Today is Mother's Day and also a Sunday, so since I'm free, I decided to cook something simple special for my mom :)

I made Rica - rica dish which is an Indonesian dish from Manado - North Sulawesi. I used pork for the meat (well, so far, I'm not really scare of swine flu, hehehe...) but if you want to try to cook this dish but you don't want to use pork, then you can substitute it with other kind of meat like chicken, beef or even fish.

Before starting to cook, you need to grind the garlic and red chili together with the salt first. Fyi, make sure to take out the seeds of the red chili if you can not really stand for the hot taste of chili.

angele: Yes, very easy and simple, you can give it a try ;)Well, in Indonesia, the mother's day is actually on 22nd December but funny part, people tend to follow the 'international' celebration day, hehehe..

Your mom must have been really happy to have this for Mother's Day! Since Indonesia also celebrates Mother's Day in December, do you cook this dish twice a year? If so, your mom is REALLY lucky! :) It looks delicious, and your directions are easy to follow. Thanks!

foodbin: You are right, it would be more aromatic if the kaffir lime leaves are being finely sliced, but since, we don't intend to eat the kaffir lime leaves thus I didn't slice it, in order to take it out easily from the dish :)

We are very small Just Tenda.,We are just starting out,But the food is very good (Not just saying that becos its my wife.lol).We are in East Jakarta,Resto Grace,Sentra Timur,Residence, Parking lot in front of the apartments,we live in the apartments.We would vgo eat at Mando Restaurants,and i always felt my wifes food was just as good or most of the time better.The RW or babi we just sell maybe 2 days a week.

There is a Mando Restaurant i like alot called "Tinoor Permai" In Central Jakarta,The Babi (Pork)Sate is ManTap! The food is very good there..My wife cooks "rw" but does no eat it any more,I do eat it, I just found your blog i really enjoy it,Im a lover of Indonesia food.so iam really enjoying reading the present and past Blogs.Also what part of Jakarta is Beautika Located,I will go visit it.Do they serve Pork there?Where ilive there are many Medan Restaurants,They also serve Dog and Pork,But have it listed as B1 &B2,B1 meaning dog,& B2 meaning pork Cooked different then Manado.